I have a Raspberry PI running the standard Raspbian distribution. I have this little C program that I need to run at the very end of the shutdown sequence. All it does is send a couple of logical high ...

I have a python script that works very well executed from a (remote) console like this :
sudo /srv/web-asset-server-master/python server.py
The problem is, that it only lives as long as the console ...

My sshd won't start at bootup. I have to type it in manually (sudo service ssh start).
I've posted a question on how to start ssh at bootup (How to start SSH daemon on boot on Linux Mint Debian v2), ...

I've had the displeasure of bitterly realizing that (after a few days) upon rebooting of my system, that init.d scripts written by myself were not executed. This caused a bit of problems, but I think ...

Here's my problem. I'm new to Linux scripting and RasPi and I am beating my head against the wall on an issue. I want to use this raspi for displaying a vm using VNC. I got VNC installed. Created a ...

Trying to reuse an existing "SysV" init script with new Linux version that uses "systemd" (RHEL 7). Just copying it into "/etc/init.d/" fails to work as expected. Can only manually Start/Stop service ...

Mainly for test purpose, I wish to modify /etc/inittab and add a new runlevel to my system (/etc/rc7.d). I have not save my modification yet, because I'm confused by Vim behavior. Indeed, the editor ...

I am currently trying to understand the difference between init.d and cron @reboot for running a script at startup/booting of the system.
The use of @reboot (this method was mentioned in this forum ...

I have a script (server_up.sh)that automatically makes server up whenever server gets rebooted and is placed on linux server in home directory.
I have made another script "up_server.sh" in init.d that ...

I just installed Ubuntu 14.10 . One of the things that I prefer in my desktop is to not clear out /tmp . I'm trying to do the same in 14.10: to prevent the /tmp from being cleared at boot.
In one of ...

I was looking under /etc/rc?.d and I didn't see many scripts compared to the number of scripts in /etc/init.d.
I see syslog running on my machine but who started it ? No script in /etc/rc?.d point to ...

I have the service script below, which calls a shell script. We changed something in the script When I run the shell script directly, everything works fine. When I restart the servER, everything works ...

I have a SQL query that must be run on every startup after a software update (updates come with new installations of mysql and thus change the debian-sys-maint user's password, which my script updates ...

I just have a simple question but scouring the search engines I have not found any explanation of what the - (hyphen) in the chkconfig run level actually stands for within the init script file. For ...